An Akane comic
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Aoi is 13 when he begins to dye his hair, stealing bottles of bleach and toner from the store behind everyone’s backs.
Akane watches this with interest, at first; she’s only 10, and the idea of getting different colors in her hair is exciting until Aoi warns her not to touch it, and the smell is awful, and he spends hours and hours dying it, and then his roots grow out anyway. She still watches him bleach it once, because he’s all she has, even if she’s just sitting on the side of the bathtub and listening to him tell her not to steal.
Her brother can steal, but Akane can’t; for a reason she can’t explain, she thinks that someday she’ll commit worse crimes.
Akane watches him move, his reflection in the mirror, and kicks her feet and tries to imagine Aoi with white hair for the rest of his life. Somehow, it fits.
More than that, Akane is happy for this moment. He rarely comes home from work this early, but she’s always happy when he does. Already, she’s gotten some taste of how little the adults care for the two of them, and the two of them are always alone.
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As Akane grows into her memories, so does Aoi. One second he’s the boy with the blue scarf who Seven will describe 9 years in the future, and the next he’s turning into her memory of Santa, with his white hair and hairbands, and eyes that look both unlike her brother as she knew him at 15, and which undeniably will be him, in the future.
Akane is meticulous about appearances. It’s habit; everything has to look the same, and then has to work the same. She sees the Nonary Game through a fragmented, child’s memory. She and Aoi and the hired engineers are reverse engineering their own future.
Looking at myself through [my/your] eyes
To: @yakkosakazaki
From: @z0mbiem0shpit
Hi! This is my first Zecret Santa ever so I knew I wanted to do something big, although I’ve never fully illustrated a comic before so I wasn’t prepared for how lengthy this project would become (ᵕ ´ ∇ ˋ ). I hope it doesn’t look too rushed! I absolutely loved your prompts and you included a ton of things I personally wanted to see, so I tried to incorporate/combine as many elements from your prompts as I could. Honestly this comic has been floating around in my head for a while so I’m glad I got an excuse to explore some of these ideas. I really hope you enjoy it as much as I enjoyed working on it. Happy holidays!!
Some notes about the comic itself:
- Your third prompt instantly made me think of the story that Aoi tells in the engine room, so this comic is based on that. In true end(?), when he says “it’s time for me to make a wish come true” it sounded like he was referencing Akane’s letter, so I tried to show how he’d kept it with him the whole time and looked back on it when he needed to feel hopeful again. The second half is a sort of letter/narration to her in return after the nonary games.
- It ended up a bit washed out in the final, but I wanted to include a little bit of the pokemon prompt so akane and aoi have matching espeon and umbreon pajama pants lol! There’s also a a bunch of other little details hidden around
- I leaned mostly into your third prompt, but I also really wanted to hint at the first prompt, so Aoi and Light cuddling on the couch is 100% on purpose and implied teehee
